I didn’t know you didnt like the name Shadow of a Doubt - if you could change it now what would you change it to?
Sprinkles on a Doughnut?
No? Anyone?
Ha, well I couldn’t come up with anything better, that’s why I settled for SoaD.
I went out of my way to give Phantom of Truth a unique name - to the point of googling it to make sure there weren’t any other DP fics or famous works of fiction with the same title (Amazingly, there aren’t! Try googling it!). I really wanted to do the same with SoaD while keeping it closely thematically tied to PoT.
Shadow of a Doubt is not only an existing DP fic (sorry truphan! I didn’t realize that until after), it’s also the name of a famous Hitchcock film. AND it shares an acronym with a well-known band, System of a Down. Which makes Tumblr tagging complicated, to say the least. Anything tagged simply soad/Shadow of a Doubt I’m unlikely to see.
Aside from all that, I just wish I could have been more original. It’s not ideal.
Buuuut my other name possibilities were either too specific for such a sweeping plot, too dark, or too divorced from Phantom of Truth to make them a good pairing. It is what it is now! And it’s so embedded into the story I wouldn’t try to change it even if I did think of something. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯












